As is typical of most Greek areas, Rhodes has a long and rich history. There can be no doubt as to how much the Greeks have influenced the world today. The greeks produced the famous philosophers, mathematicians and scientists, the most famous battles and wars, and the most well-known mythology and pantheon of gods.

Rhodes was inhabited as early as the Neolithic period, through the centuries have weathered the place so that only a small vestige of this first culture remains. Rhodes was inhabited at first by the Minoans during the 16th century BC, then by the Telchines, a Rhodian race mentioned in Greek mythologies. In the 15th century, the Achaeans invaded, and in the 11th century, Rhodes island inhabitants, along with the Dorians, who then proceeded to build the three cities of Ialyssos, Kameiros and Lindos.

Not soon after, the island was invaded by the Persians, who eventually took over but were defeated by the Athenian forces in 478 BC. This prompted an alliance, where the Rhodes inhabitants joined the Athenian League. Fast forwarding several decades, the Peloponnesian War broke out, and while Rhodes was a member of the league, it remained quite neutral. While the war lasted for almost 30 years, Rhodes managed to stay out of the conflict and eventually decided to go their own way.

408 BC saw the unification of the island, where they assigned Rhodes as the capital. The plan for this was overseen by Athenian architect Hippodamus. This didn't last long however, as the Peleponnesian war had severely weakened the entired Greek culture that foreign powers found it an easy target for invasion. 357 BC was the year where the island fell to Mausolus of Caria, which then fell to the Persians 17 years after. However, these regimes were bried, and in the end, Rhodes became part of Alexander of Macedonia's growing empire.

Fast-forwarding to the first century AD, the emperor Tiberius spent some time in exile on Rhodes, after which, Saint Paul brought Christianity to the island. Rhodes then reached it's zenith in the third century, where it was considered the most civilized and beautiful city in Hellas. 395 AD Byzentine Empire has already acquired Rhodes. It was repeatedly under attack by a variety of forces though, such as the Muawiyah Muslim Forces, and again retrieved by the Byzantine Emperor during the First Crusade.

In 1309, the Byzantine era came to end, due to subjugation from the forces of the Knights Hospitaller. They were ruled then by a duly named “Knights of Rhodes” and the city was rebuilt to mimic that of the European medieval ideal. The city's famous monument, the Palace of the Grand Master, was built during this period.

The Knights rule couldn't extend for so long, and in December 1522, Rhodes was conquered by a large army of Suleiman the Magnificent, who forced the remaining Knights to retire in the Kingdom of Sicily. Thus, the city became the territory of the Ottoman Empire for almost four centuries.

Finally going to modern times, Rhodes was seized from the Turks by the Italians, in 1912, and by 1948, they were again united with the rest of Greece. Finally, in 1949, Israel signed an armistice agreement with Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon, on the island of Rhodes.